Egg-carrier



(No Model.)

D. GOODWILLIH Egg Carrier.

No. 240,998. Patented May 3, l88l.

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PATENT DAVID GOODWILLIE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

EGG-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 240,998, dated May 3, 1881.

Application filed November 6, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID GOODWILLIE, of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Egg-Carriers, of which the following is a specification,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, illustrating the improvement, in which Figure 1 is an elevation of one of the wider wooden strips which, in part, form the nests for the eggs; Fig. 2, a perspective representation of wider and narrower wooden strips transversely interlocked as completed to form the nests for eggs; Fig. 3, a broken elevation of the two forms of strips in positions relatively as when they are being interlocked.

The object of the present invent-ion is to pro- Vide a light, clean, and durable egg-carrier, which may be readilyput together to support eggs for their safe transportation, and quickly taken apart or shut together for return shipment.

The nature of invention consists of an eggcarrier made of two widths of thin wooden stuff or other suitable material, so formed that the narrower strips pass through the wider strips and are interlocked by tongues on the wider strips entering slots in the narrower strips, as the construction in detail is. hereinafter fully described and shown.

A represents the wider strips of wood, which are made a thirtieth or more of an inch in thickness and of such a height as to properly support the eggs. In these wider strips are formed a number of slots, 0, corresponding to the number of narrower strips used to form the nests for (No model.)

the eggs. The slots are made transversely of the strips, so long as the narrower strips are wide, and at their middle parts are offsets forming tongues d, which enter slots D in the narrower strips and lock the two strips togethenas shown at Fig. 2.

In Fig. 3 itis shown how the narrower strips are put through the wider strips-that is, by bringing the two strips nearly parallel to each other.

It is observed that short slots 0 c are made to extend a little distance laterally from the slots G, to give the proper spring to the wood to put the strips B through "without splitting the parts; and itis also observed that the only way of forming the locks is by putting the strips B through all the strips A before the pockets are brought into rectangular shape.

The nest, as shown at Fig. 2, shows the invention in shape to be dropped into the ordinary exterior frame of wood or straw-board or other well-known material, as is now done and well known in the art of packing eggs for shipment.

I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States The interior frame work of an egg-carrier, composed of the wider strips A, provided with slots 0 e e and tongues d, in combination with the narrower strips B, provided with slots 1), the said strips being looked, as and for the purpose set forth.

DAVID GOODWILLIE. Witnesses:

A. G. MoREY, G. L. OHAPIN. 

